An item reported that the USA-flagged merchant ship Lahaina was sunk by an enemy submarine on 11 December east of the Hawaiian Isles. Thirty crew cmembers landed at Maui on 21 December.
Note
1. Built by Western Pipe&Steel Co., San Francisco, USA in 1920 and sunk by the Japanese submarine I-9 with torpedoes and gunfire east of Bonin Islands on 11 December 1941. Ex-West Carmona 1920-1928 and Golden State 1928-1937.
Source
Map Room Papers (Roosevelt Administration), 1942 - 1945. U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary No. 13 dated 23 December 1941.
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